PL ref for this one. Southampton FC (First Team) v Leeds United AFC (First Team) Football League Championship Referee: Brooks, John Assistant Referee: Betts, Lee Assistant Referee: Howson, Akil Fourth Official: Singh Gill, Sunny
If you dropped a striker every time he missed a chance, you'd be rotating them every game. Che has only started 4 games, and he has 3 goals and 2 assists. Not bad going. He does disappear at times, but he is also capable of producing Prem-quality moments. He would get more chances with a settled attack around him, involving Charly, Stu, and (for me) Edozie.
Yeah I left him out because it doesn’t seem like he’s done much lately. His failed move seems to have affected him. I think we’ll see Che leave in January after not scoring many in the first half of the season. A lot will be resting on Stewart’s shoulders. Let’s hope the season is not lost by then.
I suspect the intention is to sell Che in January once Stewart is up to speed (hopefully), rather than him leave for nothing at the end of the season.
SAA has impressed when coming on as a substitute but the league game when he started he wasn’t as impressive and subbed off at HT. I’m kind of pleased that he has been shielded from the crappy performances of late.
Yeah I agree. I think at his age and stage of development he is a great weapon to have coming on. It has taken Edozie a while to become a starter. Though RM keeps putting others in front of him
A suggestion to help the players to move into the right position to receive the ball might be to sit them down and give them a crash course in trigonometry. I get frustrated at watching players take themselves out of the game through poor positioning which then leads to the loss of the ball when someone tries an impossible pass. One specific moment that I noticed on Saturday involved Holgate and Downes. Holgate had the ball out wide and was moving forward with it. There was a Boro player 5 yards inside and slightly ahead of him, cutting off a diagonal ball towards Che(?). A second Boro player was also about 5 yards inside but behind and cutting off a pass back to Bedders. Downes was 10 yards inside, slightly ahead, running parallel to Holgate BUT had put himself in a position where a pass to him would be easily cut out by one of the Boro players. I was actually shouting at the screen for him to just ease off his pace to open up a passing channel but he just kept matching the Boro player giving Holgate no one to pass to.
This is it The time has come. This is the game we get our act together. Practice makes perfect If at first you don't succeed, try , try again No pain, no gain Good things come to those who wait. Fortune favours the brave. No defensive errors, clean sheet, fast free flowing football. 3-0 saints The storm clouds lift, we rise to the occasion, the saints go marching in.
It is strange how we calmoured for Adams and Smallbone prior to the commencement of the season yet boith have disappointed so far.
Yeah biggest disappointments have been Manning and Downes. Thought they were going to be far, far better than they've turned out.
20% of the team then. But like playing 90mins with 9 players every week. Might have thought a manager to have spotted that!!
Well they're not that bad, haha. But I just think it's been bad luck. Both were excellent at their previous clubs. Downes went from Rice, Paqueta and Soucek, to Smallbone, Adarma and Charles.
Not convinced by Manning, but Downes would be fine in a proper team with proper tactics and a proper manager.
Wasn’t Manning is the championship team of the year last season? He’s certainly not shown any of that level here.
